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Submitted by Christian Schneider on Do, 2017-11-23 10:13

The cocaine-eating bear from The Bluegrass Conspiracy is getting wild at The Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall!

You probably already know the story, the one about drug-smuggling Kentucky blue blood Andrew Thornton II that’s been turned into books like The Bluegrass Conspiracy and TV shows and everything else, but if you don’t here’s the gist of it:

Andrew was one of those polo club, Sayre School, stud farm kids back in the ’60s. He was probably always up to no good and ended up in a military academy. Then the army. After he’d had enough of that he became, of all things, a Lexington narcotics cop. How weird is that? A polo-playing drug cop.
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Cocaine and a Dead Bear
BLUE RIDGE, Ga., Dec. 22 (UPI) — A 175-pound black bear apparently died of an overdose of cocaine after discovering a batch of the drug, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said today. The cocaine was apparently dropped from a plane piloted by Andrew Thornton, a convicted drug smuggler who died Sept. 11 in Knoxville, Tenn., because he was carrying too heavy a load while parachuting. The bureau said the bear was found Friday in northern Georgia among 40 opened plastic containers with traces of cocaine.